Dear Poetry Friends APRIL INTO JUNE 2022 NEWSLETTER ONLINE LECTURES My online lecture, Seven Olympians 3 – George Gordon, Lord Byron, is now available to book. The lecture will be released on and after April 30th. More at … Read More
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February 2022 Newsletter
Dear Poetry Friends FEBRUARY 2022 NEWSLETTER ‘LIVE’ LECTURES ON WEDNESDAY 9TH AND THURSDAY 10TH FEBRUARY 2022 LONDON – this Wednesday 9th February 1045 to 1245 Keats’s poem ‘Isabella, or The Pot of Basil’ is at the heart … Read More
January into February 2022 Newsletter
Dear Poetry Friends ‘LIVE’ LECTURES LONDON I have just received confirmation that Painting Those Stories – Boccaccio’s Decameron can take place ‘live’ at the University Women’s Club in Mayfair starting on Wednesday 12 January (1045-1245) for ten Wednesdays*. A few … Read More
Late October to December 2021 Newsletter
Dear Poetry Friends NEW COURSE TIME TO WRITE – supportive space for writing poetry or prose, 2-5 Dec 2021 Most people who write – for a living or for self-expression and pleasure – say that the difficult part is getting … Read More
October 2021 Newsletter
Dear Poetry Friends To mark the 700th anniversary this year of the death of Dante on September 14, 1321 in Ravenna, I have just recorded as a podcast the lecture I gave in West Bay, Bridport earlier this month on … Read More
Early September 2021 Newsletter
Dear Poetry Friends I have been concentrating, this summer, on the return of live poetry events, so this first newsletter since May (the first of two for September) is to tell you about live lecture-performances-with-readings this coming week: in Taunton … Read More
May 2021 Newsletter
Dear Poetry Friends Several of you have written to me over the last year of online lectures and poetry concerts to say that you are still catching up with a backlog of them! To make time for you to watch … Read More
April 2021 Newsletter
Dear Poetry Friends DUE FOR RELEASE ON 15 APRIL 2021 EMILY DICKINSON – NEW ONLINE LECTURE BOOKING FROM TODAY Already at the age of 25, though lively, funny and good company, Emily Dickinson would not ‘go from home unless emergency … Read More
March 2021 Newsletter
Dear Poetry Friends POETRY CONCERT TWO This second concert in the new 2021 series celebrates two centenaries before the interval. The ‘symphonic poem’ opener, ‘A Prayer For My Daughter’, comes from W B Yeats’s 1921 collection, Michael Robartes and the … Read More
February 2021 Newsletter
Dear Poetry Friends JOHN KEATS 200 – NEW ONLINE LECTURE BOOKING FROM TODAY In the face of never-ending challenges, Keats was fearlessly creative on the page. Dead at 25, his sonnets can stand alongside Shakespeare’s, his poems tread every inch … Read More
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